NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Giving the probiotic Lactobacillus reuteri DSM 17938 to hospitalized children is unlikely to protect them from nosocomial diarrhea, including rotavirus infection, according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Increases in fasting blood sugar levels are often seen in patients starting niacin, sometimes to a level that suggests new onset of type…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Adding trimetazidine to the treatment of chronic heart failure improves cardiac function and slows left ventricular remodeling, according to the results of a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Lung cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy can be treated safely with erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs), according to findings published in the 24 January online issue…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A review suggests that wound-edge protection devices (WEPDs) may be useful in surgical patients, UK researchers report in a January 26th on-line paper…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Men 60 years old and younger have excellent quality-of-life outcomes after proton therapy for prostate cancer, according to findings published in the January…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – There is no need to avoid proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) in patients on the platelet inhibitors clopidogrel or ticagrelor. The increased rates of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Data from the German drug-eluting stent (DES.DE) Registry provide no evidence of the “obesity paradox” in the setting of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Adding the multitargeted tyrosine kinase inhibitor sunitinib (Sutent; Pfizer) to docetaxel did not improve clinical outcomes when used in the first-line setting in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Giving statins before a surgery lowers the risk of heart attack in statin-naïve patients, according to a new meta-analysis. The drugs also reduced…
